Taiwan Number 1

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Mistle: Oct 11, 2005; Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town; Grimey Drawer

Jeoh posted:

hello i am here to inform you that the "no why" meme has been thoroughly run into the ground and no longer provokes any response, thank you for reading and have a good day

The "no why" meme has already been knowingly run into the ground, and yet people in the harmonious 5000 years of History thread still use it whenever they can. If you asked yourself, "Why would they do that?" then the answer should be obvious.

If instead you told yourself "That's stupid" that's cool too; you're the thread equivalent of the traditional kan re nao, and are contributing to the respected culture of the only nation with 5000 years of history. :china:

# ? Sep 20, 2016 13:48

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The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Jeoh posted:

hello i am here to inform you that the "no why" meme has been thoroughly run into the ground and no longer provokes any response, thank you for reading and have a good day

there's really no meme that hasn't been run into the ground at this point wrt china, its one of the reasons all the china threads are dying. we've made fun of china enough, there's not too many new jokes to make.

doesn't mean we should stop making them, though

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:08

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Haier posted:

I knew it was too good to be true. All that relative quiet and calm in my apartment. This is China, and one must always remember that living in an apartment in China means loving hammering, sawing, and drilling from some nearby apartment, from sun up to sun down, and maybe sometimes into the late evening.

Yeah, this happens loving everywhere. It's not just China.

There's two new houses being built on my block and the noise is loving awful.

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:17

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Yeah, this happens loving everywhere. It's not just China.

There's two new houses being built on my block and the noise is loving awful.

in fairness to Haier, it is a bit different in china

like you have people drilling into places they shouldn't be drilling, because the building infrastructure was supposed to be not drilled into, at 9:45pm on a tuesday night in china. and it will be the room right above you. and you'll go ask them "when do you finish? because i have to work tomorrow" and it will be six guys, five of them smoking, one drilling, looking completely clueless, and then one will go "whoa. foreigner" while holding his cig and squatting down

that doesn't happen everywhere. that happens in china

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:23

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Yeah. We've talked about this. There are plenty of things in China that happen elsewhere, but it's a matter of degrees.

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:35

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Yeah that's very true. I'm just in a pissy mood this morning. No why.

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:39

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Have Blue posted:

China will grow larger!

well played

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:51

Yolomon Wayne: Jun 10, 2014; You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is; Grimey Drawer

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Yeah, this happens loving everywhere. It's not just China.

There's two new houses being built on my block and the noise is loving awful.

New houses being built is one thing, your neighbour deciding to hammer nails into random walls at midnight is another.

# ? Sep 20, 2016 15:00

Porfiriato: Jan 4, 2016

The official sound of the SA China thread

Also lol at that channel's name being "Sound Effects Relaxation"

# ? Sep 20, 2016 15:29

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

Yolomon Wayne posted:

New houses being built is one thing, your neighbour deciding to hammer nails into random walls at midnight is another.

"Is that a load bearing wall?"
"What's that?"

# ? Sep 20, 2016 15:37

ninjoatse.cx: Apr 9, 2005; Fun Shoe

China's space station is falling from the heavens.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/

quote:

In a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of its space station.

China's Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface. In a press conference last week, China announced that the space station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017.

Normally, a decommissioned satellite or space station would be retired by forcing it to burn up in the atmosphere. This type of burn is controlled, and most satellite re-entries are scheduled to burn up over the ocean to avoid endangering people. However, it seems that China's space agency is not sure exactly when Tiangong-1 will re-enter the atmosphere, which implies that the station has been damaged somehow and China is no longer able to control it.

This is important because it means Tiangong-1 won't be able to burn up in a controlled manner. All we know is it will burn up at some point in late 2017, but it is impossible to predict exactly when or where. This means that there is a chance debris from the falling spacecraft could strike a populated area.

Fortunately, it's unlikely anyone will be injured. Most of the parts of the space station will burn up in the atmosphere, and the few that do make it to the ground probably won't land in any populated areas. (It's a big planet.) Still, watch the skies late next year. You never know what could be falling down on you.

# ? Sep 20, 2016 20:31

Automatic Slim: Jul 1, 2007

Kind of like Skylab which landed in the Australian outback.

I wonder what the shelf of Tiangong-2 is expected?

# ? Sep 20, 2016 20:35

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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UltraRed posted:

China's space station is falling from the heavens.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/

meanwhile, one article over:

http://www.popsci.com/chinas-race-to-space-domination

# ? Sep 20, 2016 22:01

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Here's to another 5000 pages of No Why.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 18:43

Ceciltron: Jan 11, 2007; Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!; Pillbug

Wait, we got moved to LAN? This is gonna be awkward.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 18:46

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Here's to another 5000 pages of No Why.

Great final post for a GBS thread.

Ceciltron posted:

Wait, we got moved to LAN? This is gonna be awkward.

PYF or FYAD would probably be more appropriate.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 18:46

Bulgogi Hoagie: Jun 1, 2012; We

im glad we can go on plunging for a thousand more years

# ? Sep 21, 2016 18:57

vanity slug: Jul 20, 2010

Lmao why is this in LAN, we already have the best Lan thread

# ? Sep 21, 2016 20:23

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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I don't live in China but love to poo poo on it regardless so I never wanted to post in the LAN China thread

# ? Sep 21, 2016 21:50

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

Much like chinese developers running out of money, this thread is running low on funny.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 22:17

B.B. Rodriguez: Aug 8, 2005; Bender: "I was God once." God: "Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died."

JaucheCharly posted:

Much like chinese developers running out of money, this thread is running low on funny.

That article makes me chuckle and then cry because like 60% of LA's housing/apartment construction is being bankrolled by Chinese developers. They're adding something like 20,000 units to Downtown alone in the next 12 months. I think it'll make it 30,000 in a 3 year window.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 22:34

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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they built empty concrete jungles over their arable land in the 21st century loving lol

# ? Sep 21, 2016 22:46

Stringent: Dec 22, 2004; image text goes here

lol they moved the Japan thread to LAN too. how racist is that?

# ? Sep 22, 2016 00:16

Xerxes17: Feb 17, 2011

Should have moved the Han here imho.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 00:19

nong: Apr 20, 2016; Never Forget
The Century Of National Humiliation.

uber but with chinese characteristics

http://qz.com/786179/uber-china-driver-scams-ghost-drivers-are-freaking-out-passengers-and-scamming-uber-for-money/

Passengers using the ride-hailing app in several Chinese cities have reported seeing their requests picked up by drivers with creepy profile photos of zombie faces. According to Chinese news site Sixth Tone, the point of these ghostly profiles is to scare passengers into canceling the trip, so they are fined for a few yuan (less than a dollar), which goes to the driver.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 05:35

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Now that's genuinely loving brilliant.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 06:55

Banana Man: Oct 2, 2015; mm time 2 gargle piss and shit

Oh man thats awesome.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 07:46

ninjoatse.cx: Apr 9, 2005; Fun Shoe

A profitable uber strategy?! Never thought I'd see that in this thread.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 10:15

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Why not take it to the extreme and have a picture of a black man and the title nigeria-taxi or something? I mean might as well play all the fears and prejudices of China.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 10:17

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

Boiled Water posted:

Why not take it to the extreme and have a picture of a black man and the title nigeria-taxi or something? I mean might as well play all the fears and prejudices of China.

Genius detected.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 11:29

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

brb setting up gps-spoofed uber in shenzen

# ? Sep 22, 2016 12:21

Stringent: Dec 22, 2004; image text goes here

efb

# ? Sep 22, 2016 17:50

Ceciltron: Jan 11, 2007; Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!; Pillbug

nong posted:

uber but with chinese characteristics

http://qz.com/786179/uber-china-driver-scams-ghost-drivers-are-freaking-out-passengers-and-scamming-uber-for-money/

Passengers using the ride-hailing app in several Chinese cities have reported seeing their requests picked up by drivers with creepy profile photos of zombie faces. According to Chinese news site Sixth Tone, the point of these ghostly profiles is to scare passengers into canceling the trip, so they are fined for a few yuan (less than a dollar), which goes to the driver.

Mr. Vampire 2016 viral marketing is getting weird.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 18:26

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

they built empty concrete jungles over their arable land in the 21st century loving lol

It would have just been destroyed by over working/fertilizing anyway.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 20:00

AEMINAL: May 22, 2015; barf barf i am a dog, barf on your carpet, barf

What's the bed-bug situation in china like? Guessing it's pretty hellish

# ? Sep 22, 2016 22:18

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

Good job on the Great Wall restoration work.

�Botched� Repair to China�s Great Wall Inspires Outrage

Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Sep 22, 2016

# ? Sep 22, 2016 22:29

value-brand cereal: May 2, 2008

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Good job on the Great Wall restoration work.

�Botched� Repair to China�s Great Wall Inspires Outrage

"�It�s like a head that�s lost its nose and ears,� said Mr. Liu, who has spent 15 years studying that section of the wall. Once the towers there had stone carvings, but they had fallen to the ground before the repairs, he said.

�They didn�t restore the carvings back to where they belonged and just tossed them aside,� Mr. Liu said. �They used new bricks to fill in the original spots, and that saved a lot of expense.�"

Fifteen years of studying this piece of history, and they loving wrecked it. Can't wait to see this on a future cracked dot com '5 times historical monuments were destroyed' article.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 22:54

Popoto: Oct 21, 2012; miaow

# ? Sep 22, 2016 23:06

Stringent: Dec 22, 2004; image text goes here

Wedemeyer posted:

�They didn�t restore the carvings back to where they belonged and just tossed them aside,� Mr. Liu said. �They used new bricks to fill in the original spots, and that saved a lot of expense.�"

Fifteen years of studying this piece of history, and they loving wrecked it. Can't wait to see this on a future cracked dot com '5 times historical monuments were destroyed' article.

one could argue this is a pretty significant act of historical accuracy tho

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Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

StarMinstrel posted:

# ? Sep 22, 2016 23:45

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